SCOPE OHIO is a capacity-building initiative aimed at creating and sustaining Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs). Now in its second full year, the overall project is directed by staff from Ohio University’s faculty development programs and is funded by the Provost’s office and the individual faculty development programs.  Currently, ten FLCs are underway, focused on issues that have emerged as key faculty interests.

Over the SCOPE OHIO funding cycle (Sept 04 – Sept 05), the SCOPE project directors assist faculty and staff who have proposed FLC foci and who serve as community facilitators.  The project directors provide support, training and funding to the facilitators and their communities.   

The SCOPE OHIO project is designed to:

• Identify needed resources for community building,

• Provide leadership in communicating and promoting FLCs among administrators, faculty, and students as a viable institutional change effort,
• Facilitate a collaborative environment in which important topics and issues around which to build learning communities at OHIO organically emerge,
• Develop strategies for starting and sustaining learning communities,
• Promote FLCs as the mechanism for tackling problems and creating opportunities around key teaching and learning issues,
• Collaborate in the design and development of teaching and learning resources for sharing with colleagues across the institution and the disciplines,
• Build the scholarship of teaching and learning, carrying out research individually and as teams, and disseminating the outcomes broadly.